Shot in the Dark by Ozzy Osbourne

Shot in the Dark is the 1986 release built around the closing track of Ozzy Osbourne's The Ultimate Sin, the song that finally got him onto the Billboard Hot 100, at number 68, and into the top ten on mainstream rock radio. Its roots go back to around 1983 and a band called Wildlife, with Steve and Chris Overland, Simon Kirke of Bad Company, keyboardist Mark Booty and bassist Phil Soussan, who cut an unreleased demo of it. When Soussan joined Osbourne's band a couple of years later, the two of them reworked the song, and it carries both their names, though just how much of the old version survived has been argued over ever since.

It's slick, keyboard-glazed heavy metal with a chorus built for arenas, and Andy Morahan's video went into power rotation on MTV. "Killer of Giants" comes along for the ride.

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